Arrests At Balboa Theater 2012 Jan 11

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• OSD activists Tahra Ludwig, Mike Garcia, Tito and Chris McKay MIC CHECKED Jerry Sanders at his mayoral address. Unfortunately, they are being charged with felony conspiracy to disturb the peace, and $10K bail each.
  • See A video of this action
  • See a better video of the actual Mic Check
  • Read Why SDPD Accused Occupy Protesters of Felony Conspiracy
  • Read why felony charges are unlawful a contribution by Ben Katz.
  • This sounds similar to a SLAPP -- Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation but we must coin a new term, SCCAPP -- Strategic Criminal Charges Against Public Participation. If you read the first part of the wikipedia article on SLAPP, it will sound very similar to what the city is doing to OSD. The many arrests without charges filed fit the pattern:

A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is a lawsuit that is intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.

The typical SLAPP plaintiff does not normally expect to win the lawsuit. The plaintiff's goals are accomplished if the defendant succumbs to fear, intimidation, mounting legal costs or simple exhaustion and abandons the criticism. A SLAPP may also intimidate others from participating in the debate. A SLAPP is often preceded by a legal threat. The difficulty, of course, is that plaintiffs do not present themselves to the Court admitting that their intent is to censor, intimidate or silence their critics. Hence, the difficulty in drafting SLAPP legislation, and in applying it, is to craft an approach which affords an early termination to invalid abusive suits, without denying a legitimate day in court to valid good faith claims. more...

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Name (Last,First M)	Law Enforcement Dept	Book Num Case Num	Date Time	Violation Desc	Violation Location	Officer Name (Last, First) Badge Num	Court Date	Bail / Bond	Note	Tags	Event Topic